Posts Tagged ‘legal’

Via the New York Times
By ALAN COWELL
Published: February 18, 2009

After a wave of protests from its users, the Facebook social networking site said on Wednesday that it would withdraw changes to its so-called terms of service concerning the data supplied by the tens of millions of people who use it.
The about-face was made known to [...]

Via Mashable

February 16, 2009 - 3:47 pm PDT - by Adam Ostrow

oday’s hoopla over changes to the Facebook Terms of Service have prompted a rare blog post from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the post, Zuckerberg falls short of apologizing for the changes, but rather, uses the opportunity [...]

Via Ars Technica
By Julian Sanchez
| Published: December 05, 2008 - 10:01AM CT

Stacy Snyder, a federal court has ruled, won’t be teaching kids the three Arrrrs
any time soon: They’ve rejected Snyder’s claim that her First Amendment
rights were violated when a MySpace photo showing her engaged in a bit
of boozy buccaneering, as well as posts complaining [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: December 07, 2008 - 03:10PM CT

If you think it’s tough to be a blogger because your Google AdWords revenue has been in the toilet lately, the Committee to Protect Journalists wants to remind you that Internet journalist—including bloggers—can and do suffer much more around the world. According to [...]

Via the New York Times
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: November 27, 2008
Is lying about one’s identity on the Internet now a crime?The verdict Wednesday in the MySpace cyberbullying case raised a variety of questions about the terms that users agree to when they log on to Web sites.
The defendant in the case, a Missouri woman, was convicted [...]

Via the New York Times
By NOAM COHEN
Published: November 23, 2008
A SMALL computer file appeared on the Internet last week, purporting to list the 13,000 members of the racist, far-right British National Party. The text file contained not just the names of the party’s supporters, but their home addresses, home phone numbers and, in some cases, [...]

Via Media Shift
by Lucie Morillon, November 14, 2008
In many countries, you have to commit a serious crime to be sentenced to 20 years in jail, but in Burma this can happen just for using the Internet.
There are almost 69 cyber-dissidents in jail worldwide, yet Burma’s Nay Phone Latt has become the first blogger to receive [...]

Via Media Shift
by Jeffrey D. Neuburger, November 13, 2008
Linking to content is the essence of the online experience — it’s the “Web” in the World Wide Web. But there’s a lot of legal gray area around linking, and surprisingly few court rulings providing guidance as to the circumstances when linking could result in liability.
A court [...]

Via Media Shift
by Sokari Ekine, November 10, 2008
On October 19, U.S.-based Nigerian blogger and journalist Jonathan Elendu of Elendu Reports was arrested by the Nigerian State Security Services (SSS) upon his arrival at Abuja airport. It was some days before the SSS announced that Elendu had been charged, first with money laundering and then sedition.
Yet [...]

Via The New York Times
By THOMAS FULLER
Published: November 7, 2008
BANGKOK — In what lawyers described as a landmark ruling, a court in Malaysia on Friday ordered the release of one of the country’s best known bloggers, ruling that the government acted beyond its authority in invoking a threat to national security.
The blogger, Raja Petra [...]